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AI-generatedTalos worker nodes on spot instances not scaling down during idle periods
Goal I am planning a low-traffic Kubernetes workload on Talos Linux and want to keep costs down by running worker nodes on spot/preemptible instances with the Kubernetes cluster-autoscaler handling capacity. The intent is that during idle periods the cluster shrinks to a minimal node count, and scales back out only when real load appears. Constraints and unc